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Booze, tobacco lobbies want tough penalties for smuggling 

Delegates called for more stringent penalties for violations while discussing a proposed decree regulating the production and trade of alcoholic and tobacco products at a meeting in Hanoi Friday.

At the meeting chaired by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, official agencies and companies said the fines proposed in the decree, ranging from VND200,000 to VND60 million (US$12.42-3,700), would fail to deter violators.

Violation of intellectual property rights (IPR) pertaining to invention, design, and brand name will incur the highest fine.

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